Search For Identity, Love And Truth

The theme of the book is about the Gladers trying to survive the next round of experiments, that WICKED is making them do. After the Gladers got out of the Maze, they landed in a even more terrifying situation. Having found that they were apart of an ongoing experiment, WICKED. Wicked explained that they were collecting crucial data and establishing brain patterns that would hopefully help they find the key to saving the world – a world that has been scorched dry and destroyed by disease and environmental disaster. “Due to intense solar flares, civilization has fell into chaos as people have got a highly damaging disease called The Flare, slowly turning them into insane, flesh-hungry murderers, or cranks” (Dashner, 113). All of WICKED’s manipulations

In James Dashner’s “The Scorch Trials” friendship, memory and manipulation are important themes. An example of how friendship is an important role is how Thomas, Minho and Newt stay together no matter what they face. Thomas is offered a deal from the Crank’s leader Jorge that in exchange for him taking Minho’s life and a cure for the Flare he will help them reach the Safe Haven. The boys step in immediately and so no to this offer and demand a better deal and Jorge complies. Manipulation from WICKED is driving the boys insane. WICKED is allowing Thomas to see visions of his past in his dreams and they are hard for him to handle. He is only seeing small snippets and they are slowly driving him crazy. As the boys are walking to “Crankville” they

Beth and Tommy, in the middle of the darkness, have found each other, and all they want is to be together. But when they get caught making out at school, it puts everyone in danger. Tommy is used to the beatings from their foster father, but when Beth is singled out for punishment, Tommy can’t sit back and let it happen.

In the hospital, he slips in and out of a dream that depicts him being hunted by the Aztecs in a forest and recalls a “smell of war”. It is simply a night terror which is normal for traumatic situations. He wants to stop himself from falling asleep and either accept one of the two horrifying realities but he can’t get himself to stay awake. The character is eventually held prisoner by the Aztecs and continues to wake up back and forth and tries to decipher which one is his actual reality. After confusing the reality with the hospital and the Aztecs he claims to be eventually sacrificed on an Aztec stone bed which he claims to be in fact his own

Imagine an alien species called “souls” takes over the earth in an effort to expunge the waste the humans have created. The aliens are not belligerent, they only want to help the earth stay beautiful and learn more about the human species. An alien soul is put inside of a rebel human, who survived the first host invasion. This rebel girl, named Melanie, must fight against her host to protect her secrets. In this journal I will be connecting The Host to the search for identity, love and truth.

A few kids get injured including Minho. After running for cover the boys meet a crank. He is named Jorge and he wants to kill Minho. Jorge wants to kill Minho because Minho said, “Unless that lightning storm fried my retinas, I’d say there are eleven of us and one of you. Maybe you should start talking” (Dashner 147). Jorge happens to have many crank friends but Thomas talks Jorge out of killing Minho and even gets him to help the Gladers get to the safe haven. He does this by saying there is a cure against the flare disease which everyone has but my not be affected. Jorge and his smart friend Brenda who is also a crank helps escort the guys to the mountains. But another issue comes into play. A crank attack occurs separating Brenda and Thomas from the rest of the group. Brenda luckily knows the city and helps Thomas through an underground tunnel. Yet again they run into some crazy cranks which they run and hide from. They almost were the insane cranks dinner but barely made an

Having realized he dropped his smart phone somewhere in the vast flora of Lakeview park, Julian was berating himself. Not only did he face the daunting terrain, it was getting dark very fast. Not willing to give up his smart phone to the wild or the darkness Julian prepared for the worst. He grabbed a flashlight, knife, a small bottle of oleoresin capsaicin spray and asked his mother to drive him, two accidents left Julian unable to drive, his mind is left unable to focus under the effects of the drugs prescribed to help him with his symptoms. The drive to Lakeview park was surreal, what was once a veritable paradise during the day became a place of nightmares at night. Beautiful oak trees twisted into dark phantasms. Julian left his Mother Julie behind in case he didn 't come back in half an hour. Julian knew the terrain well even at night he was able to retrace his steps. The first place where the phone might be was a small bog by the freeway. During his long walk he heard men in the darkness, Julian knew there were many homeless who stayed at the park at night unwilling to be noticed he turned off the small L.E.D. flashlight and blended in with the darkness silently yet quickly moving through Lakeview park. Once he got to the swampy bog he started calling his missing phone from another cell hoping to hear it ring through the darkness. Getting nowhere he began to make his way south, but then Julian lost his balance on the mire and fell right on his tailbone then his back

Love. Friendship. Love or friendship. Why does one have to pick between one or the other? A relationship has recently ended. One full of ultimatums, broken promises, violence... emotionally and physical violence. Relationship that has, over the months, become full of lies, mistrust and toxic. It was hard to walk away from something and someone who one has gotten use, use to waking up every morning, talking to every single day, and simply their presence. How does one become so feed up to the point one has to find strength in order to leave, in order to find better and be better for themselves? A friendship was made that day, one where I was able to feel free, however with a burden on my heart. How did I know I was doing the right thing? Was

Throughout the entirety of this course, I was able to truly think critically and deeply about faith, God, death and meaning. This section of Logos was extremely meaningful for me because I think it is so important to have faith in something higher in order to find true meaning in life. I choose to live my life in a way that is significant for me because I do not want to depart this world without leaving something behind. Legacy is important to me, but so is finding meaning within myself. The works we read, watched and discussed guided and challenged my reflections so I could develop a clearer understanding of my quest for meaning.

The meaning of life is referred to as an individual pertaining the significance in living or existence in general. From the readings “Man’s Search For New Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl, he was able to give a greater depth on his own experience and the stories of his parents to illustrate the life of an ordinary prisoner. As Frankl went through suffering, he discusses that life has a meaning behind it and despite any circumstances suffering cannot be avoided. In addition, he paints a vivid image how to cope with it, finding the meaning in it and how to move forward and the mindset needed to survive. However, throughout this essay the theme dehumanization brought on by the camps, will be explored as a main aspect in Frankl surviving.

us to the main character “Fred” realization of the ultimate existential truths in many ways

The concept of love and passion can be considered an abstract emotion which may be immeasurable within a relationship. Although, one is hopeful to feel love and passion in most modern day marriages, however, Kate Chopin demonstrates in her short story " The Storm” there is a possibility to married and yet be lacking in one of the most important aspects of a marriage such as passion. However, is the emotion for love in order to maintain a family together substantial enough to continue a marriage without passion and most importantly is there a difference between love and passion. The author Kate Chopin not only describes the intimate affair through her two leading characters in “The Storm” Calixta and

Love is an obstacle that people face and must overcome rather than a goal people strive towards.

The familiar dong! of the bell rang above me. It was a blessing; today, Will was in a mood where everything I did was completely wrong, and he knew exactly how to fix it. First, he began with Photoshop. Alright, I admit, I was doing a crappy job on it, but I didn't care. Computer Graphics is one of the easiest classes to pass, so why would I go out of my way on a project that I get credit for if I just complete it.

I awoke the night my life changed in a cold sweat, a product of the eight-year-old me being chased by a man made of metal and explosions of lava surrounding me. I had nightmares that whole fall. I attributed them to watching Stephen King’s IT, Terminator, and Nightbreed too often, but Ann wasn’t allowed to watch them because she got too scared, so it was worth the nightmares to have the TV to myself. This time the sounds of my nightmare continued even after I opened my eyes. Thinking it was real, he was finally here, the Terminator was going to get me, I tip-toed toward my living room where the noise was coming from.